Professor John Mohan
School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
Position: Professor of Social Policy
Telephone: (023) 8059 6681
Email: J.F.Mohan@soton.ac.uk
Biography
Career History
I studied geography at Durham University and subsequently held research and / or teaching posts at Birkbeck College, Plymouth Polytechnic, Queen Mary and Westfield College, and Portsmouth University before moving to Southampton in 2005.
Distinctions, awards
2006 Elected Academician, Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences
2005 Leverhulme Fellowship
2003 Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
2003, 2006 Advisor, House of Commons Health Committee
1992 Harkness Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
Research interests
I am currently working on several projects concerned with the voluntary sector and with charitable giving. From September 2008 I have been the Deputy Director of the new Third Sector Research Centre (see TSRC). This is a joint initiative with the University of Birmingham and has funding of £9Mn from ESRC, the Office for the Third Sector, and the Barrow-Cadbury Trust. Watch this space for further details of the centre's activities! Please also see 'work in progress' (below) for details of other current and recent funded research projects. I would be keen to supervise research students in these or related areas.
Much of my previous research has focused on health and health care policy, including organisational changes in health care delivery, the public-private mix for health, and the role of non-profit organisations, and I would be interested to hear from students who wished to develop work in these areas as well.
Other interests include spatial divisions of welfare; urban and regional policy; history of social policy.
Work in progress
Current / recent externally-funded research projects
Northern Rock Foundation Third Sector Trends in North east England and Cumbria (2008-10)Northern Rock Foundation Third Sector Trends in North east England and Cumbria (2008-10) - this is an innovative research programme on the scale, dynamics and needs of the voluntary and community sector in North East England and Cumbria. I lead the quantitative elements of this project in conjunction with Guidestar UK and NCVO.
ESRC - Office for the Third Sector research centre on Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (2008-2011)
ESRC - Office for the Third Sector research centre on Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (2008-2011): I am director of one of the 3 'spokes' of this initiative, which will conduct several projects in collaboration with Kent University on the theme of charity and social redistribution
ESRC Understanding Population Trends and Processes (2008-9)ESRC Understanding population trends and processes (UPTAP) initiative - I am coinvestigator (with Liz Twigg, University of Portsmouth) on a project exploring the influence of socioeconomic and ethnic segregation on people's perceptions of social cohesion and quality of life, using the British Crime Survey
Wellcome Trust research resources in medical history programme (2007-8) - with Martin Gorsky (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) I am working on a project to develop an on-line public access version of a database of historical (1889-1944) statistics on the British voluntary hospitals, generated as part of an earlier research project.
Quality of life, social polarisation and place funded by a personal fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust (2005-6) this project involved using national survey datasets such as the Survey of English Housing, the British Crime Survey and the Health Survey of England to investigate connections between local social conditions and people's perceptions of and involvement in their neighbourhoods. The project involved collaboration with Dr Liz Twigg (University of Portsmouth) and led to a successful joint application to the Understanding Population Trends and Processes initiative (see above).
Role of nonprofits in health care delivery - a review of the literature (NHS Service Delivery and Organisation Programme (2005-6)): (with Allyson Pollock and David Price (Edinburgh) and Jean Shaoul (Manchester).
Roles
Deputy Director, ESRC-OTS Third Sector Research Centre
Selected publications
| Books | |
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| Gorsky M and Mohan J with Willis T 2006 Mutualism and health care: British hospital contributory schemes in the twentieth century . Manchester: Manchester University Press. On-line abstract, (ISBN: 0-7190-6578-X) | |
| Mohan J, Barnard S, Jones K, and Twigg L 2004 Social capital, place and health: creating, validating and applying small-area indicators in the analysis of health outcomes. London: Health Development Agency: http://www.publichealth.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=502867. | |
| Mohan J 2002 Planning, markets and hospitals. London: Routledge. On-line abstract, (ISBN: 0-415-19606-X) | |
| Mohan J and Gorsky M 2001 Don’t Look Back? Voluntary and charitable finance of hospitals in Britain, past and present. London: Office of Health Economics., (ISBN: 1 899040 96 X) | |
| Mohan J 1999 A United Kingdom? Economic, social and political geographies. London: Edward Arnold., (ISBN: 0 340 67752 X) | |
| Mohan J 1995 A National health service? The restructuring of health care in Britain since 1979. London: Macmillan., (ISBN: 0 312 12410 4) | |
| Chapters in books | |
|---|---|
| John Mohan 2009 Visions of privatisation: new Labour and the reconstruction of the NHS. In J Gabe and M Calnan (eds), The new sociology of the NHS (pp. 79-98). Abingdon, Oxon. : Routledge., (ISBN: 978-0-415-45597-5) | |
| M Gorsky, J Mohan and T Willis 2007 "A splendid spirit of cooperation: hospital contributory schemes in Birmingham before the NHS Medicine and society in the Midlands 1750 - 1950 (ed. J Reinarz) (pp. 167-191). Brentwood: Doppler Press. | |
| J Mohan, L Twigg, S Barnard, and K Jones 2006 Volunteering, geography and welfare: a multilevel investigation of geographical variations in voluntary action. In Milligan, C and Conradson, D (eds), Landscapes of voluntarism: new spaces of health, welfare and governance (pp. 267-284). Bristol: Policy Press., (ISBN: 10 1 86134 632 8) | |
| Mohan J 2006 The ‘caprice of charity’: regional variations in the finances of British voluntary hospitals before the NHS. In Gorsky, M and Sheard, S (eds), Financing Medicine: the British experience since 1750 (pp. 77-92). London: Routledge. | |
| Mohan J 2006 The uses of history: the Labour governments and the reconstruction of the British NHS. In A Andresen, K T Elvbakken and T Gronlie (eds), Politics of prevention, health propaganda and the organisation of hospitals (pp. 133-146). Bergen: Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies., (ISBN: 10-82-8095-041-9) | |
| J Mohan 2004 Sozialer Wandel, raumliche Spaltung und Sozialpolitik: New Labour und der britische Wolfahrtstaat (Social change, spatial divisions, and social policy: New Labour and the British welfare state). In F Kessl and H-U Otto (eds), Soziale Arbeit und Soziales Kapital: Zur Kritik localer Gemeinschaftlichkeit (pp. 97-112). VS Verlag. | |
| S Barnard, L Twigg, K Jones and J Mohan 2004 Social capital, geography and health: developing and applying small-area indicators of social capital in the geography of health inequalities. In Morgan, A (eds), Social capital for health: issues of definition, measurement and links to health (pp. 83-109). London: Health Development Agency. | |
| M Gorsky, J Mohan and M Powell 2002 British hospitals and the public sphere: contribution and participation before the NHS . In S. Sturdy (ed.), Medicine and the public sphere (pp. 123-145). Routledge. | |
| Articles in journals | |
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| J Taylor, L Twigg, J Mohan to be published Diversity or disadvantage? Using the British Crime Survey to explore the impact of ethnic diversity and multiple deprivation on dimensions of collective efficacy across small areas of England . Environment and Planning A On-line abstract | |
| L Twigg, J Taylor, J Mohan 2010 Investigating perceptions of antisocial behaviour and neighbourhood ethnic heterogeneity in the British Crime Survey. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35(1) On-line abstract, forthcoming | |
| J Mohan, L Twigg 2007 Sense of place, quality of life and local socioeconomic context: evidence from the Survey of English Housing, 2002-03. Urban Studies, 44(10), 2029-2045. On-line article | |
| S Barnard, K Jones, J Mohan and L Twigg 2006 Developing and evaluating small-area indicators of the neighbourhood social environment. Environment and Planning A, 38, 2173-2192. On-line article, (ISSN: 0308-518X ) | |
| Barnard S, Jones K, Mohan J, and Twigg L 2005 Social capital, geography and health: a small-area analysis for England. Social Science and Medicine, 60, 1267-83. On-line article | |
| Gorsky M, Mohan J and Willis T 2005 From hospital contributory schemes to health cash plans: mutualism in health care in the post-war period.. Journal of Social Policy, 34, 447-467. On-line article | |
| Gorsky M, Mohan J and Willis T 2005 Social insurance, the British hospital system and the NHS debates, 1941-8: the rejection of social insurance in British health care? Twentieth Century British History, 16, 170-192. On-line article | |
| Mohan J 2004 Milburn, Powell and Hayek: for and against planning in the NHS. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 9, 54-6. | |
| Mohan J 2004 ‘A nation still dividing’: some questions of interpretation. Environment and Planning A, 36, 365-8. | |
| Mohan J 2003 Spatial divisions of welfare: society, space and social policy. Progress in Human Geography, 27(3), 347-358. | |
| Mohan J 2003 Voluntarism, municipalism and welfare: the geography of hospital utilization in England in the 1930s. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 28(1), 55-74. On-line article | |
| Mohan J, Pollock, A, Price, D and Talbot-Smith, A 2003 The NHS and the Health and Social Care Bill: end of Bevan’s vision? British Medical Journal, 327, 982-5. | |
| Gorsky M, Mohan J and Powell M 2002 The financial health of voluntary hospitals in inter-war Britain. Economic History Review, LV, 533-557. | |
| Mohan G and Mohan J 2002 Placing social capital. Progress in Human Geography, 26(2), 191-210. | |
| Mohan J 2002 Geographies of welfare and social exclusion: dimensions and consequences of exclusion. Progress in Human Geography, 26, 73-83. | |
| Moon G, Twigg L, Pollock A and Mohan J 2002 Catching waves: the historical geography of the general practitioner fundholding initiative in England and Wales. Social Science and Medicine, 55, 2001-2213. | |
| Web based | |
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| J Mohan, K Wilding, D Kane, J Branson, F Owles 2010 Beyond "flat-earth" maps of the third sector: enhancing our understanding of the contribution of "below-radar" organisations. Newcastle upon Tyne: Northern Rock Foundation. On-line abstract On-line article | |
| J Mohan, K Wilding 2009 Economic downturns and the voluntary sector: what can we learn from historical evidence?. London: History and Policy, Policy paper 85. On-line article | |
| J Mohan, K Wilding 2009 The recession will hit the voluntary sector, but not how you might think The Guardian. The Guardian. On-line article | |
| A Pollock, E Viebrock, E Miller, J Mohan, D Price, J Shaoul 2008 A literature review on the structure and performance of nonprofit organisations in health care. London: NHS Service Delivery and Organisation Programme. On-line article | |
| J Mohan 2006 Memorandum of evidence to House of Commons Health Committee Inquiry into NHS charges. The Stationery Office. On-line article | |
| J Mohan 2003 Reconciling equity and choice? Foundation hospitals and the future of the NHS . London: Catalyst. On-line article | |
| J Mohan 2003 The past and future of the NHS: new Labour and Foundation Hospitals History and Policy, Policy paper 14. History and Policy. On-line article | |
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